The Bureau hosts meetings and events all over campus at UT Austin. Some of our events are hybrid. We try to maintain a regular meeting place in WCP 4.120.

Open Lab Hours:

Open M-F from 9am-4pm except when classes and seminars are being held. Schedule changes each semester.

The room may be locked. To get a key, contact Craig Campbell or someone in the main Anthropology office.

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  • Infrasound workshop with Phil Peters

    On Sunday, November 20 at 2 p.m., Phil Peters will discuss his installation The Permian Recordings and lead a workshop on making and editing recordings with a geophone.  This will be held at Co-Lab Projects,…

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  • Artisanal developing of film & the physical traces of ecological materials on emulsion

    In this workshop we will explore how to use ecological development through artisanal processes like caffenol or phytograming as alternative ways of developing film, and how these aesthetic choices bring another instance…

    Workshop
  • Aerial sattelite view of the Chino Mine in New Mexico

    The Land Torn Asunder: Stories from Copper Country

    Oct. 13th at 3:30pmDustin Edwards, SDSULocation: Eastwoods Room (Texas Union 2.102) Dr. Edwards’s work focuses on digital rhetoric, material infrastructures, and environmental justice; and his talk explores what archival extraction means for…

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  • Carceral Edgelands Opening Event

    To inaugurate the Carceral Edgelands season of fieldwork we’ve invited anthropologists, writers, and photographers to help set the tone for the project with a set of short presentations. We’ll hear readings that…

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  • Acoustic Phenomenology: The Hidden Sounds of Austin

    Monday, November 1, noon to 3pm (PAR 102)
 Bill Fontana, known for his pioneering work with sound, will conduct a three-hour workshop, in conjunction with his commission for Butler Sound Gallery at the Blanton Museum of Art. Organized…

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  • Decorative image with "atmospherics" title and image of a jokey graph depicting cold, comfort, and hot.

    poetix.0.4 – atmospherics

    As part of its spring Poetix Series, the Bureau introduces the theme of atmospherics. On March 22nd we will begin this thematic focus with readings by Katie Stewart and Marina Peterson. We…

    BEE meet, Events

  • poetix.0.3

    folded paper, needles, waxed cord – a workshop in simple bookmaking. Monday, February 22 at 1:30pm.postponed until Monday, March 1 at 1:30pm For the third installation of the poetix series we’re holding…

    BEE meet

  • POETIX series, Spring 2021

    “X’s and I’s: Ethnography Without a Subject” We will begin 2021 with a 4-part series coordinated by Brent Crosson and Megan Gette: “POETIX” — where poetry meets the ethnographic. The Bureau for Experimental Ethnography —…

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  • Decorative banner for the curatorial dreaming session

    ‘Curatorial Dreaming’ Session

    Issues of representation & display in the curation of “difficult” objects in the aftermath of violence In place of our regular BEE meet, we’re sponsoring this round table discussion on Monday, November…

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  • BEE meet – November 2, 2020

    1. Ghosts, Memory, History Our first cycle of films is titled Ghosts, Memory, History in response to films by Lois Patiño, Linda Paganelli, and Alan Klima. The first two documentaries expand our…

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